Hexblast is dead

Hey there with the new patch notes blasphemy hexblast build became useless, and non working, it would be better if they adjusted the damage based on how much curse blasphemy applies, but with this half duration thing they just killed it

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If you really really like hexblast (like I do)
you can heavily reduce the curse duration and play it as a 2 part combo.

Hexblast does a lot more single target dmg per cast.
Yeah its jank but atleast you get it down to curse --> hexblast after 2-3 seconds.
I am currently clearing with curse decay + doomblast and contagion and on rares and bosses I follow up with hexblast.

Extraction on hexblast now that it does not cost any life while you have es as lich can hit quite hard.

Oh and you obviously also have to reduce the curse delay time.
Either by passives or by running the boots that make curses apply instantly.

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masterp9#0822 wrote:

If you really really like hexblast (like I do)
you can heavily reduce the curse duration and play it as a 2 part combo.

Hexblast does a lot more single target dmg per cast.
Yeah its jank but atleast you get it down to curse --> hexblast after 2-3 seconds.
I am currently clearing with curse decay + doomblast and contagion and on rares and bosses I follow up with hexblast.

Extraction on hexblast now that it does not cost any life while you have es as lich can hit quite hard.

Oh and you obviously also have to reduce the curse delay time.
Either by passives or by running the boots that make curses apply instantly.

Hi. I was interested in your way of clearing the map, is there any way to see your pob2 or a link to poe2.ninja?

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masterp9#0822 wrote:

you can heavily reduce the curse duration and play it as a 2 part combo.

How exactly?

I have not played enough this season and am still in early mapping so my build is a big work in progress.

You can pair the curse with swift affliction, fast forward and intense agony to reduce the duration.

additionally you can invest into the node that increases curse magnitude and reduces duration.

I am currently clearing maps by spreading despair + decaying hex + doomblast via contagion but it all needs some work.

Give me a couple days and I can share my build, I am mostly still running leveling gear and am swapping around gems to see what improves the clear.

Because I already invest into curse magnitude I run blasphemy but no temporal chains because that would increase the curse duration again (increases other debuffs applied to cursed targets)

this is my current build (ignore items and skills, just the tree, i have fast forward and +10 on level of hexblast from gear and gem. If I remember i will import my build from POB here): https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/zl71700u
It has no wait time and could be even faster with higher cast speed and "near at hand". I even ran it with near at hand for some time but noticed my cast speed was not high enough to profit from it. With fast forward and a few skills you get to 50% within ~ 1 second and with near at hand and the prior skills you get it down to less than a second. Sadly it does not seem to get lower any way or I would consider a "Impending Doom" build. Use Withering presence and despair with blasphemy and the damage is quite nice.

have you tried hex lightning spear? hold the hex.